This week I read five books. My top pick is Jennifer Lee Carrell's Interred with their Bones. Ms. Carrell imagines a murder mystery surrounding the hypothetical discovery of one of Shakespeare's "lost plays."
(Reading this novel led to the post two days previously about who Shakespeare could have been.)
At any rate, the story begins in the standard formula, but has a surprise or two. It did put a bit of a strain on my suspension of disbelief, but the action was fast-paced enough that I didn't dwell on it. Also included are vague and (to my mind) unnecessary "interludes" during which the reader is transported back to Shakespeare's England. All that aside, the characters are well-wrought and the history lessons peppered into the plot are fascinating, not tedious.
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